Just waiting for that mouse support...

I’m only seriously curious, how is this any more convenient than pulling out your one piece folding device with a keyboard and mouse already built in, using one motion to open it, and you’re ready to go?

With this, you have to pull out multiple pieces from your bag, including a clunky stand...?

I’d see it as more convenient to carry both a laptop and an iPad around in your bag than this situation.

I’ve been wondering the same thing. While I love love love my iPad Pro (which I use for school and games) it was still 1100 dollars. Add the keyboard folio and it was 1250 dollars. I still have to use my laptop for most productivity because iOS is just limited in the multi tasking department right now. I really hope iOS 13 fixes this so I can truly ditch my laptop.

It's a great laptop replacement if you have a desktop and do most of your serious work at a desktop. I had a laptop and realized the only time I took it from my desk was to do things that the iPad does really well. My laptop was old, and windows, and I didn't like it. So I bought an iPad pro, keyboard folio, and a Mac mini. It's a great combination.

The mac mini with an i7 and an egpu is a very powerful machine. The gpu is upgradable because it's external. The ram is upgradable. The monitors are upgradeable. For the power, it's a good deal in the apple world.

The imac would probably be a bit cheaper when you figure in its very good included monitor. But having non-upgradeable ram and a non upgradeable gpu doesn't sound ok to me. Yes you can use an egpu with an imac, but it's not a great solution. The egpu can only accelerate certain programs unless the primary monitor is plugged directly into the gpu. Obviously that doesn't work out so well with an imac, unless you use an external display as your primary monitor. And I already have a very good pair of monitors.

I specced my mac mini out pretty high, but if you don't have high requirements, you could get a mac mini for $800. At that price, it's a very good compliment to an ipad and the cheapest mac you can get.

Technically Ram is upgradeable on both. LTT has a video of them pulling it off. However the mini is easier to do it with, has so many more interface options, and doesn’t have problems overheating like the iMac does. My 2017 macbook overheats all the time when I’m using premier. If my company offered me whatever configuration I wanted, right now , I’d probably just use the Mac mini with Luna and the iPad Pro as a screen. Don’t care about 4K but I do care about that oLed and refresh rate.

When I need to program away from my desk, which is only at a programming Meetup I go to once a month, I use remote desktop and/or ssh. It works well enough. If I had to do any serious programming away from my desk, then I'd want a laptop.

Apart from the occasional gaming which requires more beef, I'm able to get everything done with my iPad. I work with Microsoft word, Excel and outlook mostly. And do some digital design on procreate (which I wouldn't be able to do on a laptop as easily).

iOS is not near a computer. I wish they took the surface approach because that is how a tablet should be. The iPad has amazing hardware but it’s running on phone os. I feel like apple is just being stubborn at this point.

100% agree. In fact, I'm right on the verge of picking up a surface to replace my aging 11" macbook air. I prefer macos to windows in every way; why can't I have a tablet form factor running macos? An iPad pro with bootcamp? I'd pay a hefty premium for something like that.

I've been an apple enthusiast forever, but the last few years they've really been making it hard to stay in the cult.